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Bell, CPM, Rees, JM, Naylor, T, Mayne, NJ, Jeffries, RD, Mamajek, EE and Rowe, J (2014) Pre-main-sequence isochrones - III: The Cluster Collaboration isochrone server. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 445 (4). 3496 - 3511. ISSN 0035-8711
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Abstract
We present an isochrone server for semi-empirical pre-main-sequence model isochrones in the following systems: Johnson–Cousins, Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Two-Micron All-Sky Survey, Isaac Newton Telescope (INT) Wide-Field Camera and INT Photometric Hα Survey (IPHAS)/UV-Excess Survey (UVEX). The server can be accessed via the Cluster Collaboration webpage http://www.astro.ex.ac.uk/people/timn/isochrones/. To achieve this, we have used the observed colours of member stars in young clusters with well-established age, distance and reddening to create fiducial loci in the colour–magnitude diagram. These empirical sequences have been used to quantify the discrepancy between the models and data arising from uncertainties in both the interior and atmospheric models, resulting in tables of semi-empirical bolometric corrections (BCs) in the various photometric systems. The model isochrones made available through the server are based on existing stellar interior models coupled with our newly derived semi-empirical BCs. As part of this analysis, we also present new cluster parameters for both the Pleiades and Praesepe, yielding ages of 135+20−11 and 665+14−7Myr as well as distances of 132 ± 2 and 184 ± 2 pc, respectively (statistical uncertainty only).
Item Type: | Article |
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Additional Information: | This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ©: 2014 The Authors. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | techniques, photometric, stars, evolution, formation, fundamental parameters, Hertzsprung-Russell and colour-magnitude diagrams, pre-main-sequence, open clusters and associations, general |
Subjects: | Q Science > QB Astronomy |
Divisions: | Faculty of Natural Sciences > School of Chemical and Physical Sciences |
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Depositing User: | Symplectic |
Date Deposited: | 29 Jan 2015 16:09 |
Last Modified: | 09 Mar 2020 14:28 |
URI: | https://eprints.keele.ac.uk/id/eprint/238 |